Let that Spaniards take them extra-judicially. I would think that a US Special Forces strike-group could arrange for their immediate release....no finely-written note of protest drawn up by the stripy-pants set. Members of the US military need to know that they are protected by the US Constitution, and the full faith and lethality of the United States of America.

The US is not Chile.

I'm against the International Criminal Court. It is criminal indeed. Yes, the U.N.O. is coming to take away our liberties.

Back in the 1950s, Senator John Bricker of Ohio proposed an amendment to the Constitution, known as the Bricker Amendment, that would prohibit un-Constitutional treaties and "executive agreements" and explicitly affirm the supremacy of our Constitution, including the Bill of Rights, over all foreign treaties. Conservatives strongly supported this amendment, but the "liberals" and the Eisenhower administration reassured us that we had nothing to worry about, that no treaty violating the Constitution would ever be signed, so we really didn't need such an amendment. Now, it turns out we did need it. We must revive the Bricker Amendment. Save our Constitution from the One Worlders. Save our brave soldiers from the International Kangaroo Court.

A few days ago, I read a novel written in the late 1950s, The John Franklin Letters, about patriots overthrowing a One World tyranny.

Bricker was right, Steven. It's a very scary situation, and I agree with you that it should be revived. Wikipedia entry here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bricker_Amendment

As to the "trust us" argument, whatever happened to "trust, but verify"?

Dear Eric:

Yes, I long ago named a principal character in my story after that Senator, Mr. John Bricker. Born on a farm in the middle of Ohio, in his youth he was a Christian (post-millennialist) socialist. He fought the Nazis at Normandy. After seeing Dachau, his world-view underwent a profound change. He became a pre-millennialialist fundamental Protestant and a rock-ribbed Constitutionalist Republican and capitalist. He is also a Freemason, like George Washington. His favorite holiday is the Fourth of July. He started a chain of hardware stores, then retired, leaving the chain to his sons, and started a radio call-in show where he expounded his views and argued with opponents, notably Abe Levenstein, a socialist who is now an anarcho-syndicalist and the nation's star football player. Mr. Bricker's study of the Bible finally led him to become an Orthodox Jew. He is currently trying to get his fellow Republicans to get the Constitution Conservation Amendment ratified.

He is a father and grandfather. His wife Rosemary was a prostitute when she married him. She lives in the kitchen, the dining room, and the bedroom. She loves to cook, loves to have lots of guests over for dinner, and loves to worship her man's manhood. Her favorite holiday is Thanksgiving. She loves men's men. She does not understand Lesbians. She stopped being Orthodox and became a Reform Jewess when her husband's rabbi would not let her perform weddings for men's men at the Episcopal church or at Rev. Victor's Mission of the Son of Man. She does not believe women should vote, and has only voted herself once in her life, for her husband when he ran for the Senate. (He wss defeated by a young "spendthrift" who was later in turn defeated by Pat McGonegal.)

John and Rosemary Bricker have four children: John William, Bob, Anne, and Mary. John William and Mary are Orthodox Jews like their father. Bob is a member of the Church of the Subgenius and is also a Reform Jew like his mother. Anne has a wife, Barbara, and is a Tribadentine Catholic.

Mr. Bricker is highly respected, including by his opponents, for his rock-ribbed integrity, honesty, and justice. He is the Grand Patiarch, the Grand Old Man on the Mountain.